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3/9In Kennesaw, Georgia it is illegal for a household not to own any firearms.
3/7During the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army built railroad tracks across Lake Baikal while it was frozen in winter.
3/6In 2009, no students in the Detroit public school system scored "advanced" on the NAEP national standardized math test.
3/4In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers "turned off" Niagara Falls for six months in order to study erosion of the rock bed underneath.
3/3The JW Westcott II, a US Postal Service boat based in Detroit, has its own ZIP code.
3/2In August 1998, Topeka, Kansas changed its name to "ToPikachu" in honor of the US debut of Nintendo's Pokémon video game.
3/1The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is considered the property of the King, and its tail is considered property of the Queen.
2/26In 1916, a circus elephant that killed its trainer was publicly executed by hanging from an industrial crane.
2/25John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator that he kept in a White House bathroom.
2/24The oath of office for the Kentucky General Assembly requires members to swear that they they have never participated in a duel.
2/23Joseph Stalin's last name at birth was Djugashvili. He adopted the pseudonym Stalin, which means "Man of Steel," as a pen name in 1913.
2/22The hairstyle options on an Oakland Police Department Suspect Report are Natural/Afro, Braided, Crewcut, Curly, Ponytail, Punk, and Conservative.
2/20As of 2002, Queen Elizabeth II had a Big Mouth Billy Bass animatronic singing fish on her grand piano.
2/19Franklin Delano Roosevelt set a national high school record in the standing high jump.
2/18Half of all children in America will be on food stamps at some point during their childhood.
2/16In the Trobriand Islands, short eyelashes are a symbol of popularity because lovers bite off each other's eyelashes when kissing.
2/15John McCain was a contestant on Jeopardy! in 1965.
2/14Ernest Hemingway shot himself with a gun he purchased at Abercrombie & Fitch.
2/12When The New York Times chose its slogan ("All the news that's fit to print") in 1896, the four rejected options were "Always decent; never dull," "The news of the day; not the rubbish," "A decent newspaper for decent people," and "All the world's news, but not a school for scandal."
2/11After Buddy Holly's death, the coroner took $11.65 in coroner's fees from Holly's personal effects.
2/10In 2002 the dictator of Turkmenistan renamed the month of April after his mother.
2/9In Japan, the word for male masturbation is "senzuri" ("a thousand rubs"), and the word for female masturbation is "manzuri" ("ten thousand rubs").
2/8The actor who provided the voice of Gargamel in The Smurfs also invented the artificial heart.
2/3The average North Korean is an estimated six inches shorter than the average South Korean.
2/1Two of President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive (Tyler was in office from 1841-1845).
1/28The average American is more likely to live without ever visiting a dentist than to live without a TV at home.
1/27Denver International Airport is more than twice as large as Manhattan.
1/25Since 2006, 1 out of every 17 novels purchased in the United States was written by James Patterson.
1/22Afghanistan has had both a solid black flag (1880-1901) and a solid white flag (1996-1997).
1/21The new span of the Bay Bridge will cost as much to build as the Large Hadron Collider.
1/17In 1943 the sale of sliced bread was banned in the United States.
1/15There are an average of 1800 thunderstorms in progress at any given moment.
1/14In 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were arrested together for riding in a carriage on a Sunday. While in office, Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Pierce were arrested for speeding in a carriage and running down an old woman on a horse, respectively.
1/13Instead of passing down family names, the Akan people of Ghana typically name children based on birth order and which day of the week they are born on. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is so named because he was born on a Friday (Kofi) and was the fourth-born child (Annan). His middle name, Atta, indicates that he is a twin.
1/11British competitors in Olympic pistol shooting events must do all their training in Switzerland because of UK handgun bans.
1/8The pilot for the TV show "Nash Bridges" was written by Hunter S. Thompson.
1/7Former Cardinals offensive lineman Conrad Dobler has had 31 knee surgeries.
1/6Lake Baikal contains 20% of the world's surface fresh water (as much as all the Great Lakes combined).
1/5President Woodrow Wilson's 1915 wedding was catered by Chef Boyardee.
1/4In traditional Balinese culture, a baby is not allowed to touch the ground until it is 105 days old.
1/1In 1957, Indian envoy Krishna Menon gave an eight hour filibuster speech to the UN Security Council. He collapsed from exhaustion at the podium and was hospitalized, but returned to continue his speech for another hour while a doctor monitored his blood pressure.
12/3183% of all chicken meat sold in the US is infected with either campylobacter or salmonella at the time of purchase.
12/30The pistol shrimp snaps its claw shut so fast that the resulting cavitation approaches the temperature of the sun and is loud enough to white out submarine sonar.
12/29In South Korea, the popular urban legend of "fan death" states that leaving an electric fan running overnight in a closed room will cause death by oxygen deprivation or hypothermia. As a result, many electric fans sold in South Korea are equipped with shutoff timers.
12/28When Coca-Cola announced that it was discontinuing New Coke and returning to its classic formula in 1985, ABC interrupted its regularly scheduled programming to break the news.
12/21Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was a duet with R2-D2 on the Star Wars Christmas album, Christmas in the Stars (1980).
12/19Teller from Penn & Teller's legal name is the single name "Teller."
12/18The Iroquois Indian nickname for George Washington, Conotocarius, translates as "Town Destroyer" or "Devourer of Villages."
12/1499% of the world's landowners are men.
12/12On Dec 2, 2009, the day that Tiger Woods said in a statement that he regretted his "transgressions," the #1 and #5 top trending Google searches were "transgressions" and "transgression definition," respectively.
12/9Released in 1965, Slumber Party Barbie came with a book called "How to Lose Weight." One of the suggestions in the book was "Don't eat."
12/8In Rwanda, citizens are required to spend the last Saturday of each month cleaning the streets.
12/7Article 222 of the Turkish Penal Code bans the use of the letters Q, W, and X.
12/6Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Rob Kindler owns a Porsche Cayenne with the vanity license plate "2BG2FAIL".
12/5Michael Jackson composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
12/4Germany is still paying off the reparations imposed on it at the end of World War I.
12/2In the US, it is legal to send queen honey bees via air mail, but not drones or worker bees.
12/1As part of David Hasselhoff's divorce settlement, he received sole possession of the catchphrase "Don't Hassel the Hoff."
11/30P.T Barnum convinced The New York Evening Sun to publish his obituary before his death so he could read it in print.
11/28The name of the soft drink Mountain Dew comes from a slang term for moonshine.
11/27As president, Warren G. Harding once lost an entire set of White House china in a poker game.
11/25In 1911, Pablo Picasso was held and questioned by police for his suspected involvement in the theft of the Mona Lisa.
11/24In Japan, inflatable sex dolls are known as "Dutch wives."
11/23Martin Van Buren's autobiography (822 pages long) does not mention his wife at all.
11/20Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
11/19From 1990 to 2007, there were 7 recorded instances of aircraft colliding with iguanas in the United States.
11/18The cream filling in Twinkies was originally banana-flavored, but was changed to vanilla when World War II interrupted the world banana trade.
11/12Timothy McVeigh's last meal was two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
11/1162% of women in US state prisons have children under the age of 18.
11/10About 10% of the electricity in the US comes from dismantled nuclear bombs.
11/9Since uncovering Nazi execution records, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been posthumously baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims.
11/6In 1721, Louis XV removed 25 of the most notorious prostitutes from a Parisian prison and sent them to Louisiana in an effort to supplement the lack of women in the colony.
11/5The production of state quarters has generated $4.6 billion in profit for the federal government due to collectors taking more coins out of circulation.
11/475% of America's 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service due to obesity, illegal drug use, a criminal record, or a medical condition.
10/14Pandora's "box" comes from a mistranslation by Erasmus of Rotterdam in 1508 - in the original myth, it is a jar.
10/13Next to Trúc Bach Lake in Hanoi, where John McCain's plane crashed in 1967, there is a statue commemorating the capture of "John McCan [sic], the famous air pirate."
10/8The first Democratic governor of Wyoming attended his inaugural ball in a pair of shoes made from the skin of a lynched cattle rustler.
10/6During the Cold War, every Minuteman long-range nuclear missile in the US was equipped with a launch code security device to prevent unauthorized or unintentional launches. However, due to concerns that real codes would interfere with wartime launch orders, the launch code for every missile was set to 00000000.
10/6In 1956, the Cincinnati Reds changed their name to the Redlegs to avoid an association with communism.
9/30The final scene of the movie Casablanca was filmed on a sound stage too small to fit a real airplane, so the filmmakers built a half-sized prop plane and hired midgets to play the flight crew to ensure proper perspective.
9/25On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, a lesser-known fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin killed 10 times as many people and destroyed an area twice the size of Rhode Island.
9/24In 1872, Congress passed a law to dock the salaries of members of both houses for every day of absence not caused by illness. It has only been enforced twice.
9/23When Herbert Hoover invited a congressman's black wife to the White House for tea, he was officially denounced by the state legislature of Texas.
9/22J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to step on his shadow.
9/17In the last ten years, female life expectancy in Zimbabwe has dropped from 63 years to 34 years.
9/161 in 3 households that own a Prius also own an SUV.
9/16Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
9/15The Las Vegas Strip is not located in Las Vegas.
9/14Pinball was banned in most major American cities from the 1940s to the 1970s because it was considered a form of gambling.
7/15In Des Moines, dancing in public is illegal after 2 a.m.
7/14Article 249 of the Haitian penal code prohibits turning someone into a zombie.
6/17There are four containers of human excrement from the Apollo 11 crew at Tranquility Base, the site of the first moon landing.
6/13Since 1958, only 2 of Argentina's 18 presidents have served a full term.
6/11Over 200 people confessed to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.
5/1137% of Alabama voters voted against legalizing interracial marriage in 2000.
5/11Beards are prohibited among male students, faculty, and staff at Brigham Young University.
4/27390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in England's 2001 census.
4/17During the 1990s, Texas courts upheld death sentences in three cases in which the defense lawyers had slept during the trial.
4/15The books in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series accounted for 16% of all US book sales in the first quarter of 2009.
4/12In a 1996 survey, 17% of Americans said they were more comfortable with a First Lady who does not change her hairstyle for the entire term.
4/10In 1996, FBI investigations into military surplus sales discovered that there were 23 privately owned Cobra attack helicopters in the U.S.
4/9850,000 cell phones are inadvertently flushed down British toilets every year.
4/740% of Australian women wear a bra with a DD or larger cup size.
4/6The North Pacific Gyre, an intersection of several major ocean currents, contains over three million pieces of plastic garbage per square kilometer.
4/3New York state resident astronauts who die in the line of duty are exempt from state income tax for the year of their death.
4/1On April 1, 1915, a French pilot flew over a German military camp and dropped a fake bomb with an April Fool's note attached.
3/30The average residence in Tokyo is 33% larger than the average American two-car garage.
3/28West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd has quoted all 37 of Shakespeare's plays on the Senate floor.
3/27The income eligibility cutoff for public housing in San Francisco for a one-person household is $63,350 a year.
3/26A kidnapped child can be claimed as a dependent for income tax purposes, but only if the child is presumed alive, the prime suspects in the kidnapping are not family members, and the child was a member of the household for more than half the portion of the tax year prior to the kidnapping.
3/24In Paris an average of 650 people break bones or are hospitalized each year after slipping on dog feces.
3/22Two months after he was acquitted of fraud, Don King took the jury on a vacation to the Bahamas.
3/20Mississippi did not ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (which abolished slavery) until 1995.
3/19Before entering politics, Abraham Lincoln was a cockfighting referee, and is rumored to have gotten the nickname "Honest Abe" in that role.
3/18Miles Davis uses the word "motherfucker" 333 times in his autobiography.
3/17Former US President Gerald Ford was on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1942.
3/1624% of the laws passed by the 110th Congress concerned the renaming of post offices.
3/15The last public flogging of a prisoner in Delaware occurred in 1952.
3/1437% of Russians today approve of the direction the country took under Stalin.
3/1221% of Americans making over $100,000 a year say they live "paycheck to paycheck."
3/10The name of Portland, Oregon was decided on a coin flip (the other option was Boston).
3/8The Moken people, sea nomads off the coast of Thailand, learn to swim before they learn to walk.
3/3In 1944, an estimated 28% of the female population of marriageable age in Naples was engaging in prostitution.
3/2Chili's had its biggest sales day ever on Valentine's Day 2009.
3/198.8% of West Virginians were born in the United States. West Virginia is also the only state to experience a decline in population since 1950.
2/28The movie House Party, starring Kid n' Play, started as a Harvard University film school thesis project.
2/26Tree snakes cause an average of 87 major power outages a year in Guam.
2/25In Elizabethan England, a woman often held a peeled "love apple" under her armpit until it absorbed her sweat and odor; she then gave the apple to her lover to smell in her absence.
2/2329% of the American workforce requires an occupational license from a government agency.
2/21Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham in response to a $50 bet from his editor that he could not write a book using only 50 different words.
2/18At least six US states have a constitutional prohibition against atheists holding public office.
2/17In the Dyirbal tribe of Australian Aboriginals, members are forbidden from ever speaking to their mothers-in-law. If speaking in the presence of one's mother-in-law, all normal words are taboo, and the speaker must instead use an entirely separate vocabulary.
2/1689% of Englishmen smoked in 1949.
2/15Justice Clarence Thomas did not ask a single question during the 2006-2007 Supreme Court term.
2/13In Utah, it is illegal for a bartender to recommend alcoholic beverages or to serve a customer multiple shots of the same liquor.
2/11In the Pakistani version of Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch is known as Akhtar and lives in an oil barrel.
2/10John Adams's inaugural address included a sentence more than 700 words long.
2/9Grover Cleveland paid a Polish immigrant $150 to replace him in the draft.
2/8There are 709 houses for sale in Detroit with asking prices under $3000.
2/7On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. had a pillow fight in his motel room.
2/6Bob Hawke, the Australian Prime Minister from 1983-1991, was previously the Guinness World Record holder for beer chugging (2.5 pints in 11 seconds).
2/5Valeria Messalina, the wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, was notoriously promiscuous. According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, she once challenged a prostitute to an all-night sex contest to see who could take more partners, which she won with a score of 25 men.
2/4During the Great Depression, Code 348 of the National Recovery Administration stipulated that burlesque dancers could only perform four strip teases per evening in an effort to spread the work around to less successful dancers.
2/3In Dallas, it's illegal for taxi drivers to wear shorts.
1/10Trainers spent six months teaching a chimpanzee how to cook bacon and eggs in a frying pan for a scene in the movie Dr. Dolittle.
1/9Until gaining citizenship in 1967, Australian Aborigines were classified as native game animals by the government.
1/8Carrots were originally purple, but patriotic Dutch vegetable growers bred orange color into them to match their national flag.
1/7The rate of venereal disease in continental Western Europe doubled in 1944, due mainly to the sexual promiscuity of Allied troops.
1/679% of Cameroonians have paid a bribe in the past year.
1/5A duck can sleep with half of its brain, leaving the other hemisphere conscious and one eye open to stay alert for predators.
1/4The majority of Jews in America are over the age of 50.
1/3Special Racist Place Names Edition: Mauritius comes from the Latin for "Island of the Dark-Skinned One"; Guinea comes from the Tuareg for "Land of Black People"; Ethiopia comes from the Greek for "Land of the Burned Faces"; Sudan comes from the Arab for "Land of the Blacks"; Melanesia comes from the Greek for "Black Islands."
1/2T-Pain's stage name stands for "Tallahassee Pain," and refers to the hardships of growing up in the state capital of Florida.
1/1The average SAT score of University of Florida football players is 890.
12/30The music video for the Michael Jackson song "Bad" was directed by Martin Scorsese.
12/29The 285 tallest mountains in the world are all in Asia.
12/28At age 12, Jay-Z shot his brother in an argument over a piece of jewelry.
12/27There is no bridge that spans the 4,000-mile long Amazon River.
12/26The Philippines flies its flag upside down during wartime.
12/25In Catalonia, there is a Christmas tradition known as the "caga tió," or "pooping log." The hollowed-out log is "fed" candies and nuts for several weeks leading up to Christmas, when the family gets the log to expel its treats by hitting it with sticks and singing traditional songs about defecating candy. Catalonian nativity scenes also typically feature a "caganer," or "pooper" - a man squatting in the corner and defecating.
12/24Special Detroit Edition: 47% of Detroit adults are functionally illiterate; Detroit's high school graduation rate is 24.9%; Detroit has no national chain grocery stores; in 1980, Detroit gave Saddam Hussein the key to the city.
12/23General Motors has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits for 1,000,000 people.
12/22Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan.
12/19René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.
12/18U.S. President James Buchanan was nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, which forced him to view things with head tilted to one side and his left eye partially closed.
12/13Among Albanian couples that use some form of contraception, 89% use the withdrawal method, versus 2.8% that use condoms and 1.3% that use the pill.
12/12In the hit Bryan Adams song "Summer of '69," the number 69 refers to the sexual position, not the year 1969.
12/11The following songs were all written by Jews: "White Christmas," "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Sleigh Ride," "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," "Santa Baby," "Holly Jolly Christmas," "Winter Wonderland," "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year," "Silver Bells," and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
12/10If Gov. Rod Blagojevich is convicted, he will be the fourth Illinois governor to go to jail in the last 40 years.
12/9In American Sign Language, the sign for "stingy" is a variant of the sign for "Jewish." In Russian Sign Language, the previous sign for "American" was to indicate a large belly with your hands while mouthing the word "capitalism."
12/8In some cases, deaf-mute people with Tourette's Syndrome uncontrollably sign obscenities.
12/6The orange prison-issue sneakers at Rikers Island are known as Air Giulianis.
12/5Most skeletons used in museums and schools have typically come from India, but the Indian government outlawed their export in 1985 after persistent reports of children being kidnapped and murdered for their bones.
12/4One of every five neckties sold is a Christmas gift.
12/3Roger Ebert used to date Oprah Winfrey, and also wrote the screenplays for two X-rated movies titled Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.
12/2Necrophilia was not made a crime in any U.S. state until 1965.
12/1In the half hour before the verdict in the OJ Simpson criminal trial was announced, trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange dropped 41% and long distance telephone call volume dropped by 58%.
11/30Celebration, Florida, the residential community developed by the Walt Disney Company, has speakers hidden throughout the town that play recordings of birdsong.
11/26Dubai is transitioning away from its "landmark-based" address system, in which there are no street addresses and no mail delivery. Under the old system, mail only arrives at central PO boxes, and to get something delivered you must either write a description of the destination or draw a map instead of filling out an address form.
11/25Syphilis was originally called "Spanish disease" by the Italians, "Italian disease" by the French, "French disease" by the English and the Turks, "Polish disease" by the Russians, "Portuguese disease" by the Indians and the Japanese, and "Haitian disease" by the Spanish.
11/23The brain of a 90-year old person is the same size as that of a 3-year-old.
11/22In Germany, it is illegal to insult foreign diplomats and heads of state.
11/21Of the 35 U.S. states with official insects, 15 of them have chosen the European honey bee (which is not native to North America).
11/20Lyndon Johnson nicknamed his penis "Jumbo," and was known to pull it out and brandish it during meetings as an intimidation tactic.
11/18Children of any age can legally drink in bars in Wisconsin.
11/17Elvis Presley made $52 million in 2007.
11/14Fighter pilots sometimes ejaculate during dangerous situations due to a sudden surge of epinephrine.
11/13The federal government owns 84.5% of the land in Nevada.
11/11Anorexics often grow soft, woolly fur called lanugo, which aids in heat retention when body fat levels are too low.
11/9The Obama family's Secret Service code names are Rosebud (Sasha), Radiance (Malia), Renaissance (Michelle), and Renegade (Barack).
11/8In 1844, New York City's voter turnout was 35% higher than the number of eligible voters.
11/711% of Americans would abort a fetus if they were told it had a tendency toward obesity.
11/630% of Americans do not know what the Holocaust is.
11/4If all 213 million eligible voters voted for one of the two major-party candidates, one could win the electoral college with only 22% of the popular vote.
11/3There are more black residents in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, LA than in the state of Vermont.
11/225% of public school biology teachers believe dinosaurs and humans inhabited the earth simultaneously, and 27% believe it is possible for the living to communicate with the dead.
11/1After Samuel Wallis discovered the Tahitian Islands, the native women began offering sex in exchange for iron nails. The crew stripped so many nails from the ship that the mainsail collapsed.
10/31The Queen Mother of Swaziland's title literally translates to "She-Elephant."
10/308 of the September 11th hijackers were registered to vote.
10/2943% of West Virginians over the age of 65 are missing all of their natural teeth.
10/28Florida has more obese residents than Japan.
10/271.3 million Americans do not have indoor plumbing.
10/25The correct noun for a group of cobblers is a "drunkship."
10/24The Cayman Islands have the fourth largest banking system in the world.
10/23Centerpieces and other decorations at Amish weddings contain celery instead of flowers.
10/22More black male high school dropouts in their late twenties are in jail than are employed.
10/21The official state sport of Maryland is jousting.
10/2051% of women in Bangladesh are married by age 15.
10/19In the 2nd century BC, the Carthaginians fought off Roman ships by catapulting jars filled with live snakes at them.
10/18During World War II, codetalkers referred to submarines and fighter planes using the Navajo for "iron fish" and "hummingbird," respectively.
10/17Producers of the first Terminator movie considered O.J. Simpson for the title role, but decided he was "too nice" and wouldn't make a believable villain.
10/16Tattooing was illegal in Oklahoma until 2006.
10/15Abraham Lincoln signed the order creating the US Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated.
10/14The Burmese king Nanda Bayin died when a visiting Italian merchant explained that Venice was a free state without a king, causing him to laugh so hard that he choked.
10/13England's Sandringham Estate had its own time zone until 1936. King Edward VII began the custom of setting the clocks a half hour ahead to allow more time for hunting in the winter.
10/12The #1-#9 irons in golf were formerly known as a cleek, midiron, mid-mashie, jigger, mashie, spade mashie, mashie-niblick, pitching mashie, and baffing spoon, respectively.
10/10Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport until 1920.
10/9In 1925, jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack during a race at Belmont Park and was dead when his horse won the race.
10/8The Ace of Spades in a pack of playing cards typically has a special design because of a Card Tax dating back to the 17th century. The British Stamp Office enforced the tax by printing official Aces of Spades with the royal coat of arms, and card manufacturers chose to keep the design after the system was abandoned in 1862.
10/7Cap'n Crunch's full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.
10/6One third of the world's current population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria.
10/5In 1685, the North American colony of New France ran out of currency, so it made playing cards legal tender and used them to pay the military.
10/31 in 5000 women is born without a vagina.
10/2Paraguay has an estimated 300,000 registered taxpayers, of whom only 1,500 actually paid taxes in 2004.
10/1Johns Hopkins Hospital has thirty times as many physicians as the entire country of Liberia.
9/30AARGH, AARRGH, and AARRGHH are all acceptable words in Scrabble.
9/2834% of homeowners do not know what type of mortgage they have.
9/28America has more World of Warcraft subscribers than farmers.
9/27Only 5 students at Amherst College have landline phone service.
9/26In the Kinsey Report, 27% of college-age rural males admitted to having "an animal experience to the point of orgasm"; the most popular partners were calves, sheep, and donkeys.
9/2574% of people living in the El Paso metropolitan area speak Spanish at home.
9/24Multiplatinum recording artist Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa.
9/23The only two species in which males typically fondle females' breasts are human beings and pigs.
9/22In San Francisco, cock ring emergencies are so common that the Fire Department teletype has a special shorthand code for them. The Fire Department's Heavy Rescue Squad also has a modified circular saw designed specifically for cock ring removal.
9/21The electric eel is not an eel.
9/1929% of California inmates have 6 or more prior felony convictions.
9/18Roman households often had a barber on staff and offered haircuts to visitors.
9/17The giant squid has a doughnut-shaped brain, and its esophagus passes through the center.
9/16An average of 25 American children drown in buckets every year.
9/15Under the Code of Hammurabi, bartenders could be executed for watering down beer.
9/14California holds more inmates in its prisons than France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the Netherlands combined.
9/13An estimated 80-90% of North Dakota's female prison population was incarcerated for meth-related offenses.
9/13Pope Stephen VI hated the policies of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, so much that he had Formosus's corpse exhumed, dressed up in papal vestments, and put on trial.
9/1270% of all pornographic internet traffic occurs during the 9am-5pm workday.
9/1224% of Alaska's prisoners serve their prison sentences in Arizona.
9/10In Rio de Janeiro, the prison population is organized by gang membership. New prisoners who are unaffiliated with a gang are required to join one upon incarceration.
9/8In 16th century England, anyone who could read the Fifty-first Psalm in Latin was exempt from capital punishment.
9/6After an estimated 90% of the male population of Paraguay was killed in the War of the Triple Alliance, the Catholic church temporarily allowed polygamy so the country could be repopulated.
9/5The members of China's Boxer gang were called Boxers because they thought boxing training would make them impervious to bullets.
9/4In traditional Balinese society, boy-girl twins were forced to marry, because it was assumed that they had sex in the womb.
9/3In Japan, fried chicken from KFC is a Christmas Eve tradition.
9/2Antanas Mockus, a former mayor of Bogotá, once hired over 400 mimes to patrol the city and mock people who committed traffic violations.
8/301.5 million horses were killed in World War II.
8/29Whenever the promiscuous Mao Tse-Tung contracted venereal diseases, he declined treatment and instead had more sex, declaring, "I wash myself inside the bodies of my women."
8/27The forty members of the Académie Française, the institution that protects the purity of the French language, are known as "immortals."
8/26Twice as many people were killed assembling V2 rockets as by being attacked with them.
8/248% of all men in Central Asia are descended from Genghis Khan.
8/23In Alabama it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without an interior design license. In Nevada it is illegal to move any large piece of furniture for aesthetic reasons without one.
8/22Swarming locusts may invade up to 20 percent of Earth's land surface at a time.
8/2175 traffic signals in LA run on "Sabbath timing" so that Jews don't have to violate the Sabbath by pushing the "Walk" button.
8/18The manufacture of a microprocessor involves over 400,000 patents.
8/14Bayer held a trademark on heroin until the German defeat in World War I. It was marketed as a cure for morphine addiction.
8/1334% of American men with a net worth of over $20 million admit to having paid for sex.
8/8Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia (but Washington, DC still has a higher murder rate than Bogotá).
7/30The screenplay for the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice was written by Roald Dahl.
7/29Every plant in Tomorrowland is edible.
7/28In Chico, CA there is a $500 fine for manufacturing or detonating a nuclear device within city limits. In Pacific Grove, CA there is a $1000 fine for molesting a butterfly.
7/27Mexico City has 850 streets named Juárez, 750 streets named Hidalgo, and 700 streets named Morelos.
7/25Rather than spell out proper names letter by letter, deaf people refer to each other with "sign names."
7/22The telephone excise tax passed to fund the Spanish-American War was not repealed until 2006.
7/16Playing with a laser pointer to distract a cat was patented in 1995.
7/13Onions are the only commodity for which futures trading is banned.
7/9Saudi Arabia accounted for 28% of all global amphetamine seizures in 2006.
7/8The average price of a single-family home in Detroit is $54,000.
7/348% of American college graduates and 35% of people with postgraduate education don't accept the theory of evolution.
7/1A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income.